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Spring Central Sectional Meeting

• Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• March 16-18, 2018 (Friday - Sunday)
• Meeting #1136

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Special Session on The Mathematics of Phylogenetics

• Saturday March 17, 2018, 8:30 a.m.-11:20 a.m.
  Special Session on The Mathematics of Phylogenetics, I
  Room 318, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Colby Long, Mathematical Biosciences Institute long.1579@mbi.osu.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    An Invariants-based Method for Efficient Identification of Hybrid Species From Genomic Data.
    Laura Kubatko*, The Ohio State University
    Julia Chifman, American University
    Paul Blischak, The Ohio State University
    Andrea Wolfe, The Ohio State University
    (1136-62-606)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Statistical Inference of Reticulate Evolutionary Histories Using Data from Unlinked Loci.
    Luay Nakhleh*, Rice University
    (1136-92-461)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Roadblocked monotonic paths and the enumeration of coalescent histories for non-matching caterpillar gene trees and species trees.
    Zoe M Himwich*, Stanford University
    Noah A Rosenberg, Stanford University
    (1136-92-283)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Identifying species network features from gene tree quartets under the coalescent model.
    Hector Banos*, University of Alaska Fairbanks
    (1136-92-145)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Gene Trees from Species Trees: Testing Multispecies Coalescent Model Fit.
    Elizabeth S. Allman, University of Alaska Fairbanks
    Jonathan D. Mitchell, University of Alaska Fairbanks
    John A. Rhodes*, University of Alaska Fairbanks
    (1136-92-357)
  • 11:00 a.m.
    Trait evolution on two or more trees.
    James H. Degnan*, Univeristy of New Mexico
    Huan Jiang, DIC Dialysis Inc.
    (1136-62-436)
• Saturday March 17, 2018, 2:00 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on The Mathematics of Phylogenetics, II
  Room 318, Enarson Classroom Building
  Organizers:
  Colby Long, Mathematical Biosciences Institute long.1579@mbi.osu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Modeling the Evolutionary History of a Tumor Given Single-Cell Sequencing Data.
    Julia Chifman*, American University
    Laura Kubatko, The Ohio State University
    (1136-92-626)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Computing the Frechet Mean in Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann Treespace.
    Megan Owen*, Lehman College, City University of New York
    (1136-52-316)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Taxon Selection using Quartets.
    Joseph Rusinko*, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    Yu Cai, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    Allison Doherty, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
    (1136-92-540)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    The Cavender-Farris-Neyman Model with a Molecular Clock.
    Jane Ivy Coons*, North Carolina State University
    Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University
    (1136-51-167)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Distinguishing phylogenetic networks.
    Elizabeth Gross*, San Jose State University
    Colby Long, Mathematical Biosciences Institute
    (1136-92-485)

Inquiries: meet@ams.org

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